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Volume 13, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

This article poses a critical question regarding the concept of everyday life: can everydayness be a source of conflict? It spotlights an overlapping framework of J. Ann Tickner’s notion of the realist and its perception of threat against all that is foreign and Hannah Arendt’s portrait of loneliness and isolation as the common ground for terror. Reinforcing this framework, the article focuses on Marco Calvani’s short film , which uses space as a foregrounded character embodying an existential dualism of realism and otherism, expressed through the protagonists of Claire and Lila respectively.

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Keyword(s): Arendt; domestic space; isolation; loneliness; otherism; refugees; short film
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